Essential Management Skills - Oldham

This highly interactive and participative ‘Essential Management Skills’ course is for Managers and Leaders of Oldham based growing B2B, Retail and B2C businesses and is designed to develop your Management & Leadership skills and capabilities, to enable future business growth.

Using a blend of theory, interactive group exercises, reflective and collaborative learning and case studies, we will look at a combination of skills and behaviours designed to increase your confidence, enabling you to become a more effective manager / leader.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Owners or executive level leaders of businesses based in the Oldham area who are committed to driving the growth of their business through development of their leadership and management skills. Businesses must meet ERDF eligibility criteria:

Business that are looking to increase their turnover and / or the number of staff they employ

Business is based in Oldham or pay their Business Rates to Oldham

Employ less than 250 staff (FTE)

Turnover less than 50 million Euros or balance sheet less than 40 million Euros

Not have exceeded 200,000 Euro in State Aid in a rolling 3-year period

Management Development Stats

Only 47% of managers feel they have the skills and knowledge they need.

Less than 10% of new managers receive formal training in the first 2 years.

1 million managers will be needed by 2020.

71% of the leaders surveyed by CMI confess they either don’t train their first time managers or could train them better.

CMI (Chartered Management Institute)

Course content

The role the leader takes to ensure Business Growth and Continued People Development

What does your natural leadership style and behaviour say about you?

Understanding personalities, characters & behaviours within teams

Leadership behaviours and the impact on others

“High Performing Teams”

Recognising where you are, in the current market, and how true leadership can positively affect your market share

Embedding and translating business growth ideas into an action plan

Trust and Credibility

Developing the skill of feedback to ensure continuity and consistency across teams

course feedback

“The time on the programme was stimulating and thought provoking and gave me the opportunity to look at the business from a different perspective. This has resulted in greatly increased revenue within the business and the team are invigorated and performing much more effectively.” Fieldings Porter

“Our complete attitude towards leadership has gone through a fundamental shift and we have a completely different perspective on this area. I personally came back and delivered one of the sessions to our SMT to ensure that they fully understood the Importance of performance management, communication and motivation for our employees.” Carrs Pasties